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The rain, concentrated in a violent squall, lashes against the pickup.
2
When a violent squall broke the halyard, she was knocked overboard by the gaff.
3
These are usually preceded by a violent squall, like that which capsized the Eurydice.
4
The weather was vile; almost every hour a violent squall of hail and snow swept over us.
5
There came up a violent squall off the open Solway, and the rain was dashed on the great windows.
6
A few minutes more, and the little vessel was caught in a violent squall, and swept back into the cyclone.
7
On the 12th, about midnight, we had a violent squall that at once levelled every tent in the camp to the ground.
8
But in the afternoon the sky clouded over suddenly, and a violent squall, accompanied with thick mists, swept down upon the fort.
9
One day a violent squall set adrift everyone's boat, except his, and he helped get back all the boats, gaining everyone's approval.
10
Once he went to get his garden seeds and, coming back, a violent squall blew his basket with all his purchases overboard.
11
Suddenly something burst in the stagnant air; there was a violent squall of wind which whirled round and round, roaring and whistling over the steppe.
12
As usual, the crew were nearly all drunk; and, before sail could be properly taken in, a violent squall laid the brig on her beam-ends.
13
Meeting, too, with violent squalls of wind, they were driven off their course.
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Violent squalls from the west or the opposite direction to the trade-wind then occur.
15
There were violent squalls and bursts of thunder.
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Down upon us swept one of the abrupt, violent squalls that are met with in those latitudes.